Women and the Religious Life in Premodern Europe
Description:... Religious women have been present in every crucial aspect of Catholic church life: in schools, hospitals, orphanages, missions, social services and monasteries. Starting with the 4th-century birth of monasticism and continuing until the 17th-century birth of the active congregation, this text aims to emphasize the pivotal role that women have played in the development of Western culture and the Roman church.
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